I'm against ignorance.
~By Herman Kahn ~
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.
~By Paul Elmer More ~
I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.
~By William John Wills ~
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.
~By Paul Harris ~
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
~By Albert Camus ~
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
~By Morris Kline ~
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.
~By Elias Hicks ~
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
~By Maria Monk ~
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
~By Richard Bach ~
One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.
~By Russell Simmons ~
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
~By James Smithson ~
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
~By Maya Angelou ~
No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.
~By Saint Patrick ~
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
~By Akhenaton ~
In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
~By David Horowitz ~
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
~By Theodore Dreiser ~
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
~By Herodotus ~
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
~By Robert Browning Hamilton ~
The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
~By Sacha Guitry ~
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
~By Thom Mayne ~
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
~By Sting ~
With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.
~By James Bovard ~
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
~By Sidney Hook ~
Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.
~By Joy Page ~
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
~By Anatole France ~
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
~By Saul Bellow ~
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
~By Molly Ivins ~
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
~By Anthony Hope ~
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
~By Victor Hugo ~
I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
~By William Wirt ~
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.
~By George Kimble ~
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
~By Guy Debord ~
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
~By Henry Miller ~
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
~By William Beveridge ~
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
~By George Eliot ~
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
~By Anna Garlin Spencer ~
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
~By George Santayana ~
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
~By John Adams ~
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
~By Graham Greene ~
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
~By Bennett Cerf ~
People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it-ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
~By Sarah McLachlan ~
There is no darkness but ignorance.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
~By Luis Gutierrez ~
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
~By Bell Hooks ~
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
~By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ~
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Chance is a name for our ignorance.
~By Leslie Stephen ~
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
~By Paul Gauguin ~
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
~By Margaret Sanger ~
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
~By Katharine Fullerton Gerould ~
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
~By John Calvin ~
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
~By Frances Wright ~
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
~By Karl Popper ~
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
~By James F. Cooper ~
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
~By Socrates ~
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
~By Winston Churchill ~
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
~By John Archibald Wheeler ~
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
~By Jean Toomer ~
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
~By John Tillotson ~
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
~By Mary Wortley ~
A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.
~By Cleveland Abbe ~
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
~By John Rawls ~
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
~By Saadi ~
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.
~By Hippocrates ~
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
~By Charles Darwin ~
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
~By William Penn ~
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
~By Frances Wright ~
Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
~By Isaac Watts ~
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
~By Emma Goldman ~
Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
~By Ben Jonson ~
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